"Why, in spite of everything, you were sure it was me?" Concubine Su was looking at Lady Fang. "I don’t understand."

Old Lady Fang’s expression was complicated.

"Yes, your preparations were very thorough," she said. "But, she wasn’t pregnant."

Not pregnant?

Everyone in the room was stunned again. Even the emotionless Concubine Su was shocked.

Lingzhi froze even more.

"But, but so many doctors…" Concubine Yuan couldn’t help but blurt out.

So many doctors had confirmed it;could it be they were just faking?

Concubine Su, of course, knew that those doctors were not faking. She suddenly realized.

"So it was like that," she said woodenly. "All this time it was a trap. Old Lady was just waiting for someone to jump in. My preparations were so thorough, yet I jumped right in."

She had said it was strange before;so it was strange since that early on.

Concubine Su shut her eyes. Lady Fang grabbed her.

"Why would you do it? Was Chengyu your doing too?" she shouted.

Concubine Su opened her eyes. She had another epiphany.

"So you knew about Young Master’s poisoning," she said. She smiled bitterly. "That time, it was unavoidable."

Young Master, poisoned?

Concubine Yuan was stunned once again.

So Young Lady was not just spitting out nonsense.

So they had been preparing since then?

Or was it since the day Miss Jun arrived?

Heaven.

Concubine Yuan clutched her lapels.

Enduring the fact that the victim was her son, every moment underneath the enemy's watch. How could she think she was smart when the one she needed to catch was never a step away?

After over ten years of waiting, she finally heard that, the confirmation of the enemy. Lady Fang almost went mad.

"Why? Why? Why did you attack us?" She pounced on Concubine Su and shook her violently while crying. "Was I so wrong to you? Or was it Nianjun? Why would you do this? And Nianjun? Did you kill him too?"

She was sobbing and shouting. She was tired, tired of it all;she didn't have the strength to hit Concubine Su again.

Concubine Yuan cried while holding onto her elbow.

"Elder Sister Su," she choked out, her expression twisted. "Were those ten years of affection all fake?"

Concubine Su still did not move or say anything. It was like her soul had left her body.

"Who was it?" Old lady Fang asked her. "Who told you? Were you under instructions the whole time you were in our household?"

Concubine Su sighed and lowered her gaze.

"Not good!" shouted Old Lady Fang as she pinched Concubine Su's face.

The guards went forward to support Concubine Su.

But they were one step too late. Concubine Su shut her eyes. Blood poured from her eyes, nose, and mouth.

Concubine Yuan shrieked once before covering her mouth.

One of the guards looked over the bleeding concubine, then turned and shook his head at Old Lady Fang.

"There was a poison capsule in her tooth. We're too late," he said.

Lady Fang pounced forward.

"She can't die;she hasn't given me an explanation yet. Why she attacked my Chengyu, she attacked us," she shrieked. She hit Concubine Su who was stiff and not breathing. "I don't understand. I don't understand."

"Help Lady," Old Lady Fang ordered.

Concubine Yuan embraced Lady Fang, who was a deadweight. She felt her heart clenche and ache and she sobbed with Lady Fang.

There was crying and a general commotion, but Fang Jinxiu did not see or hear it. She only saw the guard let go of Concubine Su and how her body fell to the ground.

Since Old Lady Fang had stood in front of Concubine Su and asked that question, Concubine Su hadn't looked at her at all. Even at death, she was facing the ground, not able to spare her a glance.

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